Assessing the influence of dimensional focus during situation model construction

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-89

  Therriault, David J ^a   Rinck, Mike ^b   Zwaan, Rolf A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; READING; SEMANTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33745933745     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193388     Document Type: Article

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